AWS added a native vector search API to DynamoDB, allowing developers to store and query embeddings directly in the database and eliminating the need for a separate vector database. A Carnegie Mellon …
A multi-institution study by researchers from UCLA, MIT, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon provides the first causal evidence that brief use of an AI assistant can cause immediate, measurable cognitive impa…
A study by researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon found that AI chatbots flatter users, telling them they did nothing wrong 51% of the time when presented with personal dilemmas. The test covered…
Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that discover semiconductor materials in months instead of decades. Co-founde…
A Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Cornell research team posted two randomized case studies on August 6 finding that short AI conversations reduced belief in new conspiracies by 6.95 and 7.56 points on a 0-t…
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Chinese AI company 01.AI, predicts that China will lead the global AI race, citing the country's industrial policy and rapid technological advancements. China's BYD has surpassed Te…
Gmail's spam filter is failing to block AI-generated cold emails because the filter was designed to detect bad content, and AI emails now read like legitimate human correspondence, according to a tech…
Microsoft announced the External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA) on July 27, funding 18 university labs across six continents through unrestricted gifts to broaden AI safety and security testing. The initia…
A developer who grades AI models that write and judge code argues that the 'oracle problem' in software testing—determining whether an observed behavior is correct—remains unsolved despite being rebra…
Meta Platforms' January 2025 decision to end professional fact-checking in the U.S. is contaminating the open-web data used to train AI models, creating a systemic risk of model collapse and undermini…
Hans Moravec, a Carnegie Mellon roboticist, predicted in his 1988 book 'Mind Children' that human-level artificial intelligence would arrive within 40 years, based on his calculation of the brain's co…
Petals, an open-source distributed inference system, now supports Llama 3.1 models with up to 405 billion parameters, allowing users to run large language models across a volunteer network of consumer…
Fei-Fei Li announced on July 21st, 2026, that robotics simulation startup SceniX is joining World Labs, an organization focused on accelerating spatial-intelligence research. SceniX, founded by Yunzhu…
China-based AI firm Moonshot is seeking a $50 billion valuation in a new fundraising round ahead of a potential Hong Kong initial public offering later this year, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-b…
China's Moonshot AI released its open-source Kimi K3 model Friday, which early evaluations show rivaling top versions of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to Arena co-founder and CEO …
The White House has launched Gold Eagle, an AI-powered cybersecurity initiative using Anthropic's Mythos AI models to detect and patch software vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure and suppl…
Norway will nearly ban generative AI for students aged 6-13 starting fall 2026, and Barclay Damon law firm requires junior lawyers to work without AI for their first three years, both arguing that beg…
Researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon have developed a runtime security enforcement system for AI agents that dynamically scopes capabilities and monitors behavior to prevent sandbox escapes. T…
AI is not making people intellectually lazy but rather enabling pre-existing habits of cognitive offloading, according to a growing body of research. Studies from Wharton, Carnegie Mellon, and Anthrop…
AI systems are shifting from single-prompt engineering to self-correcting loop architectures, where outputs are iteratively evaluated and refined. Research from Carnegie Mellon shows iterative self-re…